A Microsoft-backed research team from Lumenisity (a spinout of the University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Center) has built a hollow-core cable with what it claims is the lowest signal ...

The Azure team’s breakthrough, tested over 1,200 km of fiber, cuts transmission loss to below 0.1 dB/km and expands bandwidth, promising faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient data networks.

Enlargement of the silicon nitride membrane. The colors represent the measured motion of the membrane in the out of plane direction. Red means that part of the membrane moves upward, and blue means ...